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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: TextWidget - getting text
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Date: 10 Oct 89 18:36:02 GMT
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> The following worked for us.

> char *GetTextFromScreen (w)

[ code deleted. ]

Bleh !!!

Without being too annoying I would like to urge people not to use this function
unless absolutely necessary.  It is prone to dister.  If you want to retreive
all the text from a text widget then just make a GetValues call on the XtNstring
resource.  If you want to get some subset of the text then take a look at the
internal function _XtTextGetText().  This function is much more robust than the
one posted to xpert.  In any case using the internal text routines will be
INCOMPATABLE with the R4 text widget.  I have preseved the publicly documented
interface, but the internal one has gone through major changes.

BTW:  Things will be much easier to deal with in R$.  I have made many changes
      to the text widget, and I think the code makes it both easier to use,
      and more powerful.


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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